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Sara Snow's Fresh Living: The Essential Room-by-Room Guide to a Greener, Healthier Family and Home

In this easy-to-follow guide, the green-living expert and host of the popular TV shows Living Fresh and Get Fresh with Sara Snow offers busy families simple, affordable ways to create a healthy, environmentally friendly home—room by room.

Every day, families make countless consumer choices, from which diapers to use to which apples to buy, to whether their next car should be a hybrid. For new parents concerned about the future of their children—and of the planet they will leave them—being informed feels especially urgent. But in the midst of a booming natural and organics industry, the many options can make easing into living green confusing. Now Sara Snow offers practical solutions for every aspect of family life, from laundry to recycling to decorating the nursery. Discover ways to green…

And there’s much more to inspire and encourage you, from advice on introducing children to healthy eating, to products and foods for your animal companions, to chemical-free gardening—plus sidebars offering insider secrets from green-living pioneers. Here is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to do something positive for the well-being of their family, while leaving a lighter footprint on the world.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

In this easy-to-follow guide, the green-living expert and host of the popular TV shows Living Fresh and Get Fresh with Sara Snow offers busy families simple, affordable ways to create a healthy, environmentally friendly home—room by room.

Every day, families make countless consumer choices, from which diapers to use to which apples to buy, to whether their next car should be a hybrid. For new parents concerned about the future of their children—and of the planet they will leave them—being informed feels especially urgent. But in the midst of a booming natural and organics industry, the many options can make easing into living green confusing. Now Sara Snow offers practical solutions for every aspect of family life, from laundry to recycling to decorating the nursery. Discover ways to green…

And there’s much more to inspire and encourage you, from advice on introducing children to healthy eating, to products and foods for your animal companions, to chemical-free gardening—plus sidebars offering insider secrets from green-living pioneers. Here is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to do something positive for the well-being of their family, while leaving a lighter footprint on the world.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The living room

We are working on a post-off at Shelterrific.com where you talk about how you combined decorating with your significant other or anyone you share a home with. Luckily, Dave and I were quite compatible on this front. However, he insisted that I include our 150-pound longhaired mastiff in this photo. As he put it, the biggest influence on home decor he had on me was getting me to accept that a giant dog would always be part of our lives. And, of course, there's our dog's very fitting name, that was Dave's inspiration: Sofa. See notes for more.

the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)

Double Fronted Victorian c 1890

Perfection. No original features retained, bar the original quasi-mullioned window apertures and rounded arched doorway. The Californian semi-wall is a nice touch, as is the satellite dish only slightly offset from the lozenge shaped decoration,as if casting a surreal shadow. The differential colouring of upper and lower floor window surrounds,whilst separate from the cladding, is also an interesting idea.